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Weekend Cook and Tell Round Up: Flu Fighters

Our last challenge for Weekend Cook and Tell was for all of you to share your favorite remedies and flu preventing foods. We called this Flu Fighters. We appreciated hearing how you personally deal with sickness when it hits in addition to preventing it. Here are our favorite dishes and recommendations to get you back to your best self.

Dan415 solved his flu dilemma by ingesting "large quantities of chicken soup. Nothing special with the recipe, chicken, broth, celery, carrots and seasoning. Put them all together and they spell, 'Mom's best remedy!'"

KarmaFreeCooking has kept her body Tylenol free for decades using food for its homeopathic benefits. If you're congested, try this liquid cold remedy utilizing honey, aloe vera, and lime. If a cough is among your list of ailments, just add onion to the previously mentioned items.

Finally, boobird cured the flu in two days. How? "I went straight for my homemade chicken soup I had just stocked the freezer with. I didn't add noodles not knowing what I'd feel like having. Stock with a boatload of garlic, parsley, carrots, dark meat chicken and celery. I even grated more garlic before eating just the carrots and celery. I was "Callin' Dragons" for two days." If you want a sweet treat, boobird suggests slicing bananas to freeze, and then spreading peanut butter on the slices. Assuming you use creamy peanut butter, this will also feel good on a sore throat.

A big thank you to everyone for sharing their sandwich love for this week's Weekend Cook and Tell challenge. Be sure to head over to Talk and read about next week's challenge: Super Bowl Sup